Dharma Talk Archive
2025
02-09 Kim Neuschel, Vimilakirti Sutra: rejoice without regret | Audio
01-19 Kathryn Coleman, for Marin Luther King’s Birthday | Audio
01-12 Becky Hiller, No Trash In People or Things | Audio
01-05 Kim Neuschel, When You Take Care of That One | Audio
2024
12-22 Suzanne Kilkus, Readings for Solstice Ceremony 2024 | Audio
12-18 Suzanne Kilkus, Metta on Grieving
12-08 Kathy Raschke, Rohatsu Offering | Audio
11-24 Bonnie Schmidt, Buddha does not have two kinds of words | Audio
11-17 Kim Neuschel, Remember, Remember this Heart | Audio
11-10 Kathryn Coleman, Trusting in Mind | Audio
11-03 Suzanne Kilkus, Offering of Tonglen Practice | Audio
10-20 Becky Hiller, Compassion: the Silent and Understanding Companion | Audio
10-13 Kathy Raschke, Loss, Grief and Discovery 10/13/2024
09-29 Suzanne Kilkus, A Ritual to Read to Each Other | Audio
09-22 Mike Niehans, Embrace the Rhinoceros | Audio
09-15 Ilene Kelfer, Joyfully Playing in Samadhi | Audio
09-01 Suzanne Kilkus, Observations on the Relevance of Our Practice | Audio
08-28 Suzanne Kilkus, Practicing with Positive Emotions
08-25 Becky Hiller, Finding Our Way Home to Awakening | Audio
08-18 Kathy Rashcke, The Altar, A Circle of Understanding and Practice Text
08-09 Suzanne Kilkus, Metta Flowing Kindness through the BodyMind
07-31 Suzanne Kilkus, Metta and Blessing
07-28 Kathy Raschke, “The Power of Prayer” | Audio
07-24 Bonnie Trudell, Metta for These Difficult Times
07-21 Kathryn Coleman, I Like to Gaze at the Moon | Audio
07-17 Suzanne Kilkus, Metta as Embodied Practice
07-14 Becky Hiller, It’s Hard to Do Anger the Right Way | Audio
06-26 Mike Niehans, Compassion
06-30 Bonnie Trudell, Whirlpools and Stagnant Ponds
06-23 Mickey Joe Smith, The Delusion of Separation | Audio
06-16 Suzanne Kilkus, The Buddha Always Has Our Back | Audio
06-09 Bonnie Schmidt, Our Practice Is Not A Matter of Accomplishment | Audio
06-05 Suzanne Kilkus, Benefits of Metta
06-02 Suzanne Kilkus, Practicing As If Your Life Depended On It | Audio
05-29 Barb Flesch, Metta Meditation Phrases
05-26 Becky Hiller, Undoing Our Illusions of Separate Self | Audio
05-19 Mike Niehans, It’s All Right Here
05-15 Suzanne Kilkus, Metta – Amazing and Awful
05-12 Kathy Raschke, We Can Make a Difference | Audio
05-05 Bonnie Schmidt, The Shape of Love | Audio
04-28 Suzanne Kilkus, There’s Always Something | Audio
04-24 Suzanne Kilkus, Earth Day/Week Metta
04-21 Kim Neuschel, On Encouragement: Beyond Consciousness by Shunryu Sukuki
04-07 Chris Eckerman, This Thing Called Sangha | Audio
03-31 Becky Hiller, More on Noble Silence | Audio
03-24 Bonnie Schmidt, Together in Noble Silence | Audio
03-20 Suzanne Kilkus, Metta as a Place to Rest
03-17 Ilene Kelfer, Shimmering Reflections on Zazen | Audio
03-13 Suzanne Kilkus, Metta Body Practice from Anne C Klein
03-10 Suzanne Kilkus, Pith Instructions | Audio
03-06 Suzanne Kilkus, Metta & Privately Wishing People Well
03-03 Mike Niehans, Bodhisattvas in Our Lives | Audio
02-25 Becky Hiller, The Practice of Zazen | Audio
02-18 Mickey Joe Smith & Bonnie Schmidt, The Han as Ceremony |Audio
02-11 Kim Neuschel, Ritual: A Call to Awaken | Audio
02-04 Kathy Raschke, Discovered Ignorance | Audio
01-31 Suzanne Kilkus, Metta Practice of Giving and Receiving
01-28 Suzanne Kilkus, Considering the Bones | Audio
01-24 Kathy Raschke, Metta – I Offer My Care
01-21 Suzanne Kilkus, Practicing with No Control | Audio
01-14 Mickey Joe Smith, The Home Zazen Ceremony | Audio
01-07 Mike Niehans, Finding the Way: Learning from Polynesian Navigators | Audio
01-03 Sue Berthouex, Metta from the Parting Year
2023
12-27 Kathy Raschke, Metta for the New Year
12-20 Sue Berthouex, Metta: Winter Solstice
12-17 Becky Hiller & Suzanne Kilkus, Winter Solstice Ceremony
12-10 Suzanne Kilkus, Celebrating Buddha’s Enlightenment | Audio
12-03 2023 Annual Meeting | Audio
11-26 Suzanne Kilkus, Off the Cushion and into the World | Audio
11-22 Suzanne Kilkus, Metta on Gratitude
11-19 Becky Hiller, The Ritual of Dana | Audio
11-15 Metta – Beannacht (Blessing) by John O’Donohue | Audio
11-12 Bonnie Trudell, The Season of Letting Go | Audio
11-05 Mike Niehans, Transmitting the Light | Audio
11-01 Bonnie Trudell, Metta for Peace
10-29 Suzanne Kilkus, Seijiki Ceremony and Ullambana Sutra | Audio
10-25 Kathy Raschke, Metta – A Cure for It All
10-22 Kim Neuschel, The Koan of Lingzhao’s Shining Grasses | Audio
10-15 Becky Hiller, An Invitation & Welcome to the Ceremony! | Audio
10-08 Bonnie Trudell Retreat Reflections | Audio
10-01 Ilene Kelfer, When Even for a Moment You Sit Upright | Audio
09-27 Suzanne Kilkus, Metta Body Practice from Anne C Klein
09-24 Suzanne Kilkus, The Facts of Life
09-17 Mickey Joe Smith, On Unconditional Love | Audio
09-10 Suzanne Kilkus, What’s This Practice of Chanting? | Audio
09-03 Kathyrn Coleman, Fall down 7 times, Get up 8
08-27 Suzanne Kilkus, Leaning into Medicine Buddha | Audio
08-20 Kim Neuschel, Offering Medicine to the World | Audio
08-13 Kathy Raschke, On Sympathetic Joy and Compassion
08-06 Ilene Kelfer, More on Holding Together; Falling Apart | Audio
07-30 Bonnie Trudell, Holding Together; Falling Apart | Audio
07-23 Mickey Joe Smith, Am I On the Right Path?
07-16 Kim Neuschel, On Forgiveness | Audio
07-09 Suzanne Kilkus, Forms as Container for Practice | Audio
07-02 Becky Hiller, Being Present to What Is | Audio
06-25 Suzanne Kilkus, Practice Edges | Audio
06-21 Suzanne Kilkus, Summer Solstice Metta
06-18 Mike Niehans, Juneteenth – The Grace of Connection | Audio
06-11 Ilene Kelfer, Continuing to Celebrate Ceremony | Audio
06-04 Bonnie Schmidt, Earth-touching Buddha | Audio
05-28 Chris Eckerman, This Precious Life | Audio
05–21 Mickey Joe Smith, What We Do | Audio
05-14 Ilene Kelfer, Uncertainty and Love
05-07 Bonnie Schmidt, A Sense of Welcoming | Audio
04-30 Suzanne Kilkis, The Jewel of Sangha | Audio
04-23 Mickey Joe Smith, Writing the Dharma Talk Together | Audio
04-09 Kathy Raschke, Practice as Desalinization | Audio
04-02 Becky Hiller, Always Returning | Audio
03-26 Bonnie Schmidt, Acknowledging | Audio
03-19 Kathryn Coleman, Please Sit for Me | Audio
03-12 Suzanne Kilkus, Witness, Record, Tell the Truth | Audio
03-05 Mike Niehans, I Feel So Much Love | Audio
03-01 Suzanne Kilkus, Metta from Kaira Jewel Lingo
02-26 Kim Neuschel, On Unselfing | Audio
02-19 Don Coleman, Curiosity & Wonder in the Moment | Audio
02-12 Mickey Joe Smith, Embodying The Verse of the Robe | Audio
02-08 Kathy Raschke, Metta by Maylie Scott
01-29 Ilene Kelfer, Just Snow; Just Now | Audio
01-22 Kim Neuschel, Buddha in my Shoe | Audio
01-15 Bonnie Schmidt, Remembering our Past | Audio
01-08 Ilene Kelfer, The Dream of Guan Yin | Audio
01-04 Kathy Raschke, Metta on Wanting Memories
2022
12-14 Barb Flesch, Metta for the Darkest Time of Year
12-11 2022 Annual Meeting & Report | Audio
12-04 Bonnie Schmidt, The Flowering of All-Sangha Day | Audio
11-27 Suzanne Kilkus, No Gain, Big Effect | Audio
11-20 Suzanne Kilkus, Thanksgiving ThanksBeing | Audio
11-13 Kathy Raschke, Small Actions; Many Rewards | Audio
11-10 Suzanne Kilkus, Metta on Buddha’s Golden Chain of Love
11-07 Suzanne Kilkus, Safety, Dignity, Belonging | Audio
10-23 Bonnie Schmidt, Stepping into the Woods | Audio
10-16 Kim Neuschel, The Open Field of Liberation | Audio
10-02 Donald Coleman, The Moment between One Concept & the Next | Audio
09-25 Ilene Kelfer, Holding, Being Held & Everything in Between | Audio
09-21 Kathy Raschke, Metta on Bearing Witness
09-18 Kathryn Coleman, Faith in Mind | Audio
09-11 Anne Johnson, Way Seeking Mind Talk | Audio
09-04 Don Coleman, Way Seeking Mind Talk | Audio
08-28 Kim Neuschel, Turning Fear into Love | Audio
08-21 Suzanne Kilkus, Name the Self-Centered Dream | Audio
08-14 Bonnie Schmidt, Way Seeking Mind Talk | Audio
08-10 Ilene Kelfer, Metta from Dai En Friedman
08-07 Kathy Raschke, Breathing Awareness | Audio
08-03 Kathy Raschke, Metta from Maylie Scott
07-31 Kathryn Coleman, Confusion, Despair, Grief and Love | Audio
07-27 Chris Eckerman, Metta on Reconnection
07-24 Suzanne Kilkus, A Spiral of Reconnection |Audio
07-17 Kim Neuschel, Two Threads from the Summer Retreat
07-13 Kathy Raschke, Metta on Awakening Pure Perception
07-10 Bonnie Schmidt, Everything Changes | Audio
07-03 Suzanne Kilkus, Opening Ceremony for our New Home
06-29 Suzanne Kilkus, Metta Meditation
06-26 Ilene Kelfer, On Zazen – Forgiving Ourself for Being Ourself | Audio
06-23 Suzanne Kilkus, Metta Affirmations and Aspirations
06-19 Ilene Kelfer, A Mind That is Already Full
06-05 Suzanne Kilkus, Radiant Relational Power
05-29 Bonnie Schmidt, Remembering and Practicing
05-15 Kathryn Coleman, Continued Kindness
05-08 Mike Niehans, I See You
05-04 Suzanne Kilkus, Metta on Coming Home to Ourself
05-01 Ilene Kelfer, Letting Our Feelings In
04-17 Ilene Kelfer, Resting in Wonder part 3
04-13 Kathy Raschke, Metta for Witnessing Suffering
04-10 Bonnie Schmidt, Reflections on Flint’s Dharma Transmission Talk
04-06 Suzanne Kilkus, Suzanne’s Guided Metta (audio)
04-03 Ilene Kelfer, I Just Waved
03-27 Kathryn Coleman, What is Delusion?
03-20 Suzanne Kilkus, Love and Fear in the Hsin Hsin Ming
03-13 Chris Eckerman, Dorothy was a Bodhisattva pt2
03-09 Suzanne Kilkus, A Blessing of Angels Metta
03-06 Chris Eckerman, Dorothy was a Bodhisattva-pt1 I
02-27 Ilene Kelfer, Our Journeying Toward Mercy’s Bridge-pt3
02-16 Cathy Spann, Finding Calm
02-13 Mickey Joe Smith, Just Follow the Path
02-09 Ilene Kelfer, Spiritual Refreshment
02-06 Chris Eckerman, Caring for What Life Hands Us
02-05 Ilene Kelfer, How Our Wintering Replenishes
02-02 Bonnie Schmidt, Compassionate Care & a Rumi poem
01-30 Chris Eckerman, More Reflections on Thay
01-23 Bonnie Schmidt, Reflections on Thich Nhat Hanh
01-16 Kathryn Coleman, Some Very Good Questions
01-12 Chris Eckerman, Meditation on Metta
01-09 Mickey Joe Smith, My Dedication to the Air We Breathe
01-05 Suzanne Kilkus, Metta Practice on Love
01-02 Kathy Raschke, Not Your Life
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